you will learn how to prepare traditional Italian dishes, where to shop for the ingredients, how to combine courses for a delicious, well balanced, healthy Italian meal.

Wally Maria has an extensive vegetables-fruit-herb garden and grows many of the ingredients she uses in her cooking.

She grew up in the northern Italian region of Veneto and then Friuli where she learned in her grandmother's restaurant, and from her mother and aunts, how to prepare classic Italian dishes. Over the years, Wally Maria has revised her family's traditional cooking and made it her own, displaying her passion for beautiful presentations and delicious taste

Each one of her classes is a complete meal. Students are invited to help in the preparation and cooking process if they desire. They are given a copy of all the recipes prepared in the class and are welcome to bring wine for all to enjoy with the meal, which will be served at the end.

Classes vary in length; in average last 4 hours.

Almond and pistachio tart

Lifestyle

Discover Italian is a website intended for lovers of the language,

the culture, and the food of Italy. Here you will find tips, ideas, and recipes, and, if you want to enroll in one of her workshops, see the upcoming classes schedule.

feel more at home there. Or maybe you just always loved Italy and finally have the opportunity to study the language and the culture. It will surprise you how quickly you will be ready to read Italian and have simple conversations with the natives!